GLAM Blog Club's theme this month is Donation which instantly sent shivers up my spine thinking about all the terrible books people bring into the (public) library to donate. As Hugh's example shows, it's often the things we don't put into our collections that make a library. In my own…
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Edward Shaddow
I write neo-noir polytheistic fiction (among other things). My alter ego lives in the library playing with technology. My pronouns are he/him.
Recently I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Alice Procter entitled Muddling the Museum. It looked at ways museum collections and interactions were being decolonised by external groups, as well as critiquing the internal processes of these colonial institutions. The event was filmed and hopefully it will be…
Deus Ex, a secretive government agency formed to keep the old gods in check. One of four departments, Ex GLADIUS are the enforcers. When powerful and dangerous deities get out of hand, Ex GLADIUS are the hand that strikes back.
Usually I'm fairly good at recording my achievements through the year, so when it comes to performance reviews or job applications I have a handy go-to list. Last year seems like a year of business as usual. While I did manage to do a few exciting things, mostly I just…
James Carol is a lousy private eye and even worse human being. While looking for a missing teen he must navigate a world full of gods and thugs with each and every one out to get him. Pulled into the middle of a godly grudge match can James stay alive long enough to solve the case?
2018 was the year of comics I seems. I was given the opportunity to help with the collection development of my library's comics and manga collections this year, which let me seek out new and interesting titles. You shouldn't bring your work home with you, but when that work is…
In 2018 I wanted to read more books, but more importantly I wanted to put more time aside for reading. I managed to get through sixteen titles (three more than last year!), and coupled with the sixty plus comics I read I think I did a pretty good job. 2018…
It’s been several months since I posted up my prototype of an RFID based library reference tracker that I lovingly called the ‘DoDeDoDo’. Since then I’ve worked through several variations of case design, code, and wiring. I even added a blinky light to it! I feel now that…